Tech | June 10, 2009 | 2 comments

USDA reopens comment period for first GM ethanol corn

source: http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/USDA-seeks-input-on-GE-ethanol-corn-0246.html

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JanforGore
I suspect they are doing this because most of the comments previously were against it, so they redo their risk assessment and open comments again. They can't wait to release yet another environmental time bomb on the planet as if there isn't enough transgenic contamination already to go around. And in this case, GM corn for ethanol means it is definitely not fit for human consumption. But who cares, right? Let's just grow it in open fields for the wind to carry its toxic dust onto our food and in our water while they continue to tell us there is no difference between this frankenstein corn and natural food. All for the profit margins of Monsanto and Syngenta. And once again it will fall on deaf ears.
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2 comments // USDA reopens comment period for first GM ethanol corn

  • SeaJade
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      SeaJade  

    • "The False Hope of BioFuels" a two and a half minute presentation.

      And well, then there is the false hope of genetically engineered frankenfoods and fuels....

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • 'The U.S. Department of Agriculture today reopened the public comment period for its proposal to permit, for the first time, widespread cultivation of a food crop engineered for biofuel production. In the first round, USDA received more than 13,000 comments, the vast majority of which opposed the crop's commercialization. The opposition included major trade groups and food companies that fear the enzyme could end up in breakfast cereals and snack foods and hamper their ability to export them. In response, USDA revised its risk assessment for the corn and is now seeking additional public input between today and July 6.

      "If the USDA authorizes this new ethanol corn, it would be the first genetically engineered industrial crop destined to be planted on millions of acres every year," said Jane Rissler, senior scientist and deputy director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). "When grown on such a massive scale, this ethanol corn would inevitably contaminate corn intended for the food and feed supply, exposing consumers to a new, potentially allergy-producing engineered protein that to date only a relatively small number of scientists have ever encountered."

      Syngenta, a Switzerland-based pesticide manufacturer, developed the corn by patching together an engineered protein from ones it obtained from three unusual and relatively unknown organisms that live near extremely hot deep sea vents. Scientists have found them to be so extraordinary that they cannot be classified with such well-known organisms as yeast, bacteria, plants or animals, and have to be assigned to an entirely new category.'

      end of excerpt.

    • 2 years ago
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